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Re: Fork My Dongle

#111

Post by Finbarr »

trhtrsh wrote: post #92

Labelling one "Women's" and the other "Men's" is incredibly sexist, stereotypic, demeaning, and body-dismorphic.

There was originally only one shirt that was not identified as male or female. One of your fellow commenters asked if there was a female version of the shirt available, hence the inclusion of a shirt with that description. The "men's" shirt is a standard American Apparel cut. The "women's" shirt was described as such by teespring and seems to have been designed for a smaller framed human. Women should feel free to order the "men's" shirt and vice versa.

Re: Fork My Dongle

#112

Post by [deleted] »

philwelch wrote: post #99
stcredzero wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's been plenty of humor by cruel people perpetrating injustices. They thought it was genuinely funny at the time. Sometimes, a bit more time has to pass before things can be laughed off. Zealots are known for absolutist positions. An absolutist position on laughter is as much a potential big mistake as most other absolutist positions. There's no substitute to being aware of your surroundings and being open to ot…

I will forever remain at a loss about how dongle jokes perpetrate injustice. All I know is that they really got under the skin of an all-too-serious, uptight prig, and the overreaction of that prig means it gets even deeper under the skin of prigs everywhere. And that is always funny.

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Re: Fork My Dongle

#113

Post by mercurial »

georgeorwell wrote: post #81
logjam wrote: post #68

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Hi georgeorwell. I just went through your one comment above. You just told somebody who complained of getting death threats because of his comments here to watch how he comments so "his life might get a bit easier?" I can't imagine anything more cowardly that you could have possibly posted.

I'm not sure why it's cowardly to suggest that. Could you elaborate? I thought it was good advice. If inflammatory comments are even possibly leading to death threats (and it seemed to me like they might be), it's probably a good idea to not post inflammatory comments. I mean, surely nobody wants to receive death threats. Are you saying that his/her comments are not inflammatory? My standard for cowardly posting is v…

These comments support somebody I absolutely disagree with, but two rights don't make a wrong. Just like it might not be a good idea to say something offensive to somebody else, does not mean you deserve death threats for it.

It should be OK to express your support for unpopular ideas on HN, like saying Adria Richards was right or that the people prosecuting Aaron Schwartz did the right thing. On the other hand, people sending threats... To quote the original poster, "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." You disagree with stuff? Fine. Downvote and move on, or reply to it and explain why. Don't play anonymous coward.

Re: Fork My Dongle

#114

Post by MrScruff »

Finbarr wrote: post #111
trhtrsh wrote: post #92

Labelling one "Women's" and the other "Men's" is incredibly sexist, stereotypic, demeaning, and body-dismorphic.

There was originally only one shirt that was not identified as male or female. One of your fellow commenters asked if there was a female version of the shirt available, hence the inclusion of a shirt with that description. The "men's" shirt is a standard American Apparel cut. The "women's" shirt was described as such by teespring and seems to have been designed for a smaller framed human. Women should feel free to or…

I took trhtrsh's comment as sarcasm. If not then I think people have officially lost their minds and we may need to reboot the internet.

Re: Fork My Dongle

#115

Post by varjag »

philwelch wrote: post #99
stcredzero wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's been plenty of humor by cruel people perpetrating injustices. They thought it was genuinely funny at the time. Sometimes, a bit more time has to pass before things can be laughed off. Zealots are known for absolutist positions. An absolutist position on laughter is as much a potential big mistake as most other absolutist positions. There's no substitute to being aware of your surroundings and being open to ot…

I will forever remain at a loss about how dongle jokes perpetrate injustice. All I know is that they really got under the skin of an all-too-serious, uptight prig, and the overreaction of that prig means it gets even deeper under the skin of prigs everywhere. And that is always funny.

You have to take it in the context, and the point of these tees is taking side in a sexual harassment dispute.

(Racist or homo jokes are sometimes witty too, and get under the skin of many. That something's funny is irrelevant.)

Re: Fork My Dongle

#116

Post by MrScruff »

josephagoss wrote: post #71
DannoHung wrote: post #42

Fuck anyone who buys this. Adria did a real mean thing in response to some juvenile jokes, but this is the real fucking problem and if someone got shamed for this , they'd deserve it.

Get shamed for this? Sometimes I feel I live in a different world to the people in this forum. Even my feminist friends would have no problem with this stuff, its all a bit funny. What did Linus say? "I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended" I like that quote, why? Because some people get offended too easily which makes everyone's life a little harder. I think maybe Adria w…

Brit here. I've been watching the events unfolding over the last week with increasing incredulity. I have to say the reaction to this t-shirt is taking things to another level.

My only theory is that this is the puritanical aspect of the US we always hear about. In the UK double-entendre's are so ingrained into our society that I can't imagine someone being offended by this.

Re: Fork My Dongle

#117

Post by mogrim »

marshray wrote: post #110
jlgreco wrote: post #108

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Forks are male?

Makes sense to me (native English speaker), albeit in a non-Euclidian kind of way. Apparently in Spanish and a few other languages they are too, though this seems to be a minority. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fork#Translations

In Spanish it's "una horquilla" (f.) when you're talking about git, "un tenedor" (m.) would be a fork used for eating. Not sure if that makes it better or worse :)

Re: Fork My Dongle

#118

Post by wladimir »

stcredzero wrote: post #85
pud wrote: post #11

Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing. So I'd feel kinda like a poser wearing it -- like "look, I'm a l33t haxor!" who got it wrong. Or like ones of those Chinese tattoos that doesn't actually mean anything in Chinese. Or like one of those action movies with bogus hacking scenes ("enhance!"). Or like someone wearing an Iron Maiden shirt from Urban Outfitters who's never actually heard…

> Considered buying it. But "fork my dongle" isn't, technically, a thing. If the design of a hardware dongle is Open Source, then it can be forked. Sorry, you did you did what you were afraid of but by movng in the opposite direction you thought.

Open source dongles are good, everyone is welcome to fork our repos: http://www.github.com/imx6-dongle/

Re: Fork My Dongle

#119

Post by [deleted] »

nicedongle wrote: post #83
clicks wrote: post #80

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So, to be clear, unlike submitted link's teespring payment arrangements (100% of proceeds will be donated to Girls who Code), 100% of proceeds on your link will be going to your pocket. Not knocking on you, just making it clear you hold no affiliation to the 'Girls who Code' organization as well.

Correct, there is no affiliation - I apologize if I caused any misunderstanding of that. Just trying to create a few laughs and lighten the mood of what was a pretty hectic day for a lot of people!

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Re: Fork My Dongle

#120

Post by mogrim »

MrScruff wrote: post #116
josephagoss wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get shamed for this? Sometimes I feel I live in a different world to the people in this forum. Even my feminist friends would have no problem with this stuff, its all a bit funny. What did Linus say? "I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended" I like that quote, why? Because some people get offended too easily which makes everyone's life a little harder. I think maybe Adria w…

Brit here. I've been watching the events unfolding over the last week with increasing incredulity. I have to say the reaction to this t-shirt is taking things to another level. My only theory is that this is the puritanical aspect of the US we always hear about. In the UK double-entendre's are so ingrained into our society that I can't imagine someone being offended by this.

I get the same impression, someone gets uptight about a bit of juvenile sexual humour, and complains. All seems a bit Victorian and silly to me, but then I'm not from the US and I've not got any major hang ups about the human body. Male or female.
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